Forget the old PDAs. Nokia’s got something cool as school to compete in the same market. The new Nokia 770 Internet tablet gives users some groovy new tools to surf the net with and they told everyone about all about it at the Linuxworld Summit in the Big Apple.

The Google Video Upload Program is the search engine’s attempt to embrace the growing vlogging movement, while improving the quality of their Video Search index.

The former president of SuSE leaves the firm, and the company makes a Linux security acquisition.

If this were April Fool’s day, I would have been tempted to discount this story immediately.

Yahoo! has made one of its more popular toolbar features, Yahoo! Anti-Spy (Windows), available through its Toolbar for the Firefox browser. Additionally, the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox is now available for Mac and Linux operating systems.

A study conducted by Analyst Yankee Group, where the Group queried 509 companies, found Windows and Linux are equal, cost-wise, when it comes to maintaining servers equipped with either environment.

The competitive summit continues. I’m bummed that I haven’t had much time to make it over there. It’s cool that they let the attendees blog.

The April 2005 issue of Linux Magazine has my Feature “Track Traffic With Webalizer – A Fast, Free and Feature-rich Log Analyzer”, and it provides a decent overview of how to configure Webalizer.

Because of an old application that apparently partially looks at termcap and partially hard-codes terminal info, a customer has to set TERM=ansi when using Alphacom to access his Linux box.

Novell introduced Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management, an integrated, complete management system for centralized control of Linux desktops and servers.

The Openwall Project provides security related kernel patches for Linux and BSD kernels.

Just for fun, I started typing in “I hate (brand)” in Google to see what comes up. I then got curious about the findings for “I love (brand).”

IBM’s affection for the open-source community and Linux continues to grow. Recently they allowed the community access to numerous IBM software patents with goals of quality improvement.

Novell is releasing a range of Linux offerings for the enterprise to harden Linux for mission-critical operations.

Oracle announced the creation of a dedicated Linux Test Lab, providing a rigorous test environment to further the quality, stability and supportability of the operating system.

IBM is launching a program to make Linux applications available across its whole line of hardware.

Voice over IP is officially upon us. The ability to use your Internet connection to make free phone calls to other computers is quickly making its way into the mainstream.

I doubt I’ll see too many more of these, but I had a call from someone with a crashed SCO 3.2v4.2 system.

I was interested to see that RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) was listed in slot 3 of certifications IT professionals want to get.

IBM today announced it will offer a new, low-priced IBM POWER5 processor-based server running the Linux operating system.

For its 31 January edition, Business Week has an intriguing story online about Linus Torvalds, the Finnish creator of the …